The Ministry of Health announced that the last six new cases of Corona virus that were registered in Syria were among people coming from abroad, while no local cases were recorded since the beginning of this month.
In a statement to SANA delegate, the deputy director of communicable and chronic diseases at the ministry, Dr. Atef Al-Tawil, explained that recording the last case of HIV infection locally was 15 days ago, which is promising, explaining that the six cases that were recorded recently were among people coming from outside the country as a result of the analysis of the BCR Most of them are asymptomatic and are being followed-up with contacts.
Dr. Al-Tawil stated that during the past two weeks, 13 flights were flown through Syria Airlines from nine countries carrying Syrians stranded abroad with about 2270 passengers on board and they were placed in quarantine centers to monitor their health status for 14 days. Analysis was also conducted to detect a virus infection Corona for a number of them as the results showed that six people were injured and the results of another number were negative and they were taken out to their homes after spending the quarantine period and the health monitoring teams in the governorates follow up their health status.
He clarified that the number of Corona virus cases that were registered in Syria since the twenty-second of last March until yesterday amounted to 50 cases, 36 of them recovered, and 3 cases died, where the last death was recorded on the nineteenth of last month, and the remaining 11 cases are still under follow-up Hospital in Medical insulation Hospital in Zabadani in Damascus countryside.
Dr. Al-Tawil stressed that the conducting of smears for analyzes related to detection of HIV infection are carried out according to the capacity of the competent laboratories and priority for elderly people with chronic diseases and persons with disabilities.
On the map of the distribution of injuries in Syria, between Dr. Al-Tawil, he recorded one injury and recovered in Daraa, while in Damascus countryside, 34 cases were recovered, 25 of them recovered, one case died and 8 active cases, while in Damascus 15 cases were recorded, including two cases and 10 cases recovered, and there are 3 cases of enrollment Medical follow-up.
